Your
depiction (The Turkish Model, Feb. 3) that the Central Asian Turkic republics of
the new C.I.S are "five new countries" may be a harmless slip of tongue, but
declaring their ethnically Turkish populations as "descendants of the Mongol
invaders who swept across Asia 700 years ago" is a much belated
oversimplification, misleading the un-informed on the true origins of these
peoples' Turkish and/or Mongolian roots, and their ceaseless tribal
interminglings stretching way back to prehistoric ages.

It was
between 6O to 15 thousand years ago that waves of these tribes were
trekking across the Bering Straits from Siberia to North, Central and South
Americas. Their physical appearance even then was as diverse as it was 700 years
ago.. And those earlier settlers named this vast and beautiful new continent as
"Am.er.ok—uðu",
literally meaning the "beloved—land"
in original Sky*Root Turkish.

No wonder why
Columbus was threatened into silence by the Spanish Court and Church, too
shocked to acknowledge such an indigenous name for the implications it carried,
until a false pass-port could be issued for another Italian captain as a pretext
to enable them to do so.